Or, adapting the subtitle: Brain scans reveal simple 3D grid structure
Agree that the current editorialized HN title (Beautiful math: Human brain Connectome project) is nonsensical. The word "math" doesn't appear in the article at all, for example.
Agree that the current editorialized HN title (Beautiful math: Human brain Connectome project) is nonsensical. The word "math" doesn't appear in the article at all, for example.
As someone who works at the intersection of informatics & device engineering, I find these visualizations stunning.
And the embedded video in the article is not just eye candy, it actually represents a class of diagnostic tools that didn't exist a couple of years ago.
Guilty as charged on a modest bit of editorializing; just google DSI or its related cousin Diffusion Tensor Imaging and tell me that's not pretty cool.
As for "no math" mentioned in the article, that is true. But a cursory search for the terms tensor or fractional anisotropy and weighted trajectory projection models will quickly reveal just how much math is involved, regardless of a press release that glosses over that fact.